Howard Hughes Medical Institute-led research has produced a complete connectome of the Drosophila visual system, enabling systematic investigations into how visual information is processed and relayed ...

The Brain Prize 2025 went to neuro-oncologists Michelle Monje and Frank Winkler for pioneering the field of cancer n.

Scientists have for the first time looked deep into the protein structure that may determine our vision - and discovered that ...

In a study published in Science today, Mingsha Zhang, a neuroscientist at Beijing Normal University, focused on the thalamus.

Neurodegenerative conditions such as Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's involve progressive neuronal loss due to ...

This implies that under certain conditions, even brain cells change, and so do their functions. This is noteworthy as it ...

GAS2 is a cytoskeletal regulator that interacts with both F-actin and microtubules. Here, cryo-EM structures of GAS2 domains ...

This important computational study investigates homeostatic plasticity mechanisms that neurons may employ to achieve and maintain stable target activity patterns. The work extends previous analyses of ...

If I’ve convinced you that self-similar networks manifest from the highest level of human organizations, down to the smallest ...

Edward Twomey, Ph.D., assistant professor of biophysics and biophysical chemistry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Scientists have long known that a major molecule responsible for ...

Twomey’s previous research has shown that drugs such as perampanel, used to treat epilepsy, act as a door stopper around the ...

Why is sleep so important for learning and memory? Neuroscientists from the Csicsvari group at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) provided new insight into this essential function ...